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Fencer Vulns
low 3.3

CVE-2026-116157 json

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-33 Memory Leak in PerlMagick Property Reading

published 2026-10-25 15 d ago modified 2026-11-03 5 d ago also EUVD-2026-109418

cvss
3.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ImageMagick before 7.1.2-33 contains a memory leak vulnerability in PerlMagick that fails to free values returned when reading image properties. Attackers can repeatedly trigger property reads through five affected PerlMagick code locations to exhaust memory and cause denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick 7.1.2-33
  • imagemagick Debian 12 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u15
  • imagemagick Debian 13 8:7.1.1.43+dfsg1-1+deb13u14
  • imagemagick Debian 14 8:7.1.2.33+dfsg1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-116157

  • ImageMagick openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.1.2.34-3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12356-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-116157 updated cvss 3.3

ImageMagick: ImageMagick: Denial of Service via memory leak in PerlMagick

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ImageMagick, ImageMagick-c++, ImageMagick-perl
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
13 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 4.0 4.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • ImageMagick ImageMagick

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Sources

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